Genre: | Poetry |
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Language : | English |
Published: | February 20, 2024 |
Edition: | 1st |
Paperback | |
ISBN13: | 9781399614085 |
ISBN10: | 1399614088 |
Pages: | 128 |
Dimensions: | 5.13 x 7.88 x 0.5 inches |
Weight: | 121.9 g |
'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The eldest of twelve children, she wrote poetry from the age of eleven, and became a highly successful poet in her lifetime - and remains very much loved today.
She was also a strong advocate for human rights, campaigning to abolish slavery and child labour, and her three-part poem A Curse for a Nation is a powerful polemic against the slave trade.
'I heard an angel speak last night, and he said "write! Write a nation's curse for me, and send it over the western sea" '